July 28, 2026 59 min How can intelligence be artificial? Artificial intelligence is not new. In fact, its origins go back to ideas that emerged even before the first modern computers. But what we have today seems nothing short of magical. AI chatbots can answer questions, w… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
July 14, 2026 64 min What language do animals think in? What a head-scratcher! Animals probably don't speak our language, but they are constantly communicating through movement, sound, smell, behaviour, and choices. The challenge is learning how to read those signals witho… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 30, 2026 54 min Do we need a Lorax who speaks for the trees? Trees clean our air, cool our cities, support wildlife, protect our soils, and quietly keep the world running. But forests are much more than collections of trees. They are also homes, workplaces, supermarkets, pharma… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 16, 2026 59 min How come Karen from HR has got Herpes? Why does Karen from HR have herpes? And more importantly… why do so many of us? In this gloriously inappropriate but scientifically rich episode, Helen and Dr C are joined by Matthew Murray, a virologist at the Danish… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 11, 2026 3 min Series 2 Introduction Welcome back! We survived series 1 and we're here with another round of interviews with top experts trying to dodge the jargon alarm. Make sure to follow Talking of Science wherever you're listening to this, because i… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
January 9, 2026 59 min How do you win a Nobel Prize? The question on every helicopter parent's mind! In this special bonus to round off our first season, Dr C sits down with one of the humblest laureates you could imagine, Professor Morten Meldal, to ask what it really… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
December 18, 2025 43 min Why do plants want to grow? In the tenth episode (already?!), Helen and Dr. C celebrate by going full plant mode with guest Emma Aller, a plant-loving molecular biologist from the University of Copenhagen and co-host of the Plantejagten podcast… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
November 6, 2025 42 min Is coral a plant or a rock? Well... no. Or, kinda, maybe. Another chin-scratcher from Dr C in this episode, where we dive into the blue to explore the fascinating world beneath the sea and learn all anyone could want to know about corals and the… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
September 16, 2025 37 min If I graze my knee every day, would I eventually run out of blood? As always, a deceptively simple question that opens the door to a hilarious exploration of how our bodies make blood. Find out what happens when you scrape your knee and how the body keeps itself cleverly supplied wit… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
August 29, 2025 49 min What's the craziest experiment a scientist has ever done? What's the craziest experiment you could imagine doing? Now go crazier. And you're still probably not thinking about anything as crazy as the experiments that Kristoffer Frøkjær has written about in his book The Man W… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
July 10, 2025 38 min Can you wake up a frozen mammoth by shocking it with lightning? Storybooks can impact the imagination of a child in so many ways. In this episode, we meet Professor Eline Lorenzen to try and get to the bottom of whether David Walliam’s award-winning children’s novel The Ice Monste… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 11, 2025 48 min Why didn’t they play fair? What do rigged fencing swords, blue grass, and menstrual cycle coaches tell us about human behaviour? Quite a lot, actually! In this episode of Talking of Science, Helen Frost and Dr. C are joined by trivia king James… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 10, 2025 1 min Introduction to Talking of Science Talking of Science is a spotlight on the mad and hilarious conversations we end up having when we try to talk science with our kids. Learn more about this show and meet the people who bring it to life. To get in conta… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 9, 2025 40 min How does a calculator know what 85 + 85 is? Well, according to Dr C… it just does! But perhaps we can go a little deeper than that. Personally, I suspect that there’s a tiny gremlin inside each device, with many, many fingers to do all those calculations. Howev… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 9, 2025 35 min Who is the best at climbing a tree? We often overlook our hands - their exquisite engineering is easy to miss in the comings and goings of everyday life. This week we meet Stine Keibel Blom who is an expert on the evolution and anatomy of primate hands… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 9, 2025 53 min Why can I see the moon during the day? Is it made of cheese? Does it bring out werewolves? The moon is a fascinating topic! In this episode Dr C meets a titan of astrophysics podcasting, Tina Ibsen, to learn about the moon and its effects on us down here o… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
June 9, 2025 46 min Why are those ants moving their eggs? Uncovering an ants’ nest is like opening a portal to another world - a tiny and very busy world. In this episode we meet Asta Rødsgaard-Jørgensen who is studying fungus-farming ants, an occupation which brings her fac… Listen now Your browser does not support the audio player.
